90 S'g; <;%:t:ON5 ..., . . . ,., , .... Ii ..... "*'" 5x: -- , . :.t W . . .\j> 'S< ;:. .;" .. :::::.::::: .:: " " '::: .:. ' i/*- ....... ;.. w<- ..-.- '---;'..;, v: ... .._.,, . :% .v 1ft ,- .,;;-- rø' for reservations: Address Mr. Winston McCrea Mgr. Sun Valley, Idaho (or phone Sun Vattey 3311) or Union Pacific Railroad, Room 2661, Omaha 2, Nebr. or see your travel agent. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 111111 Nice thing about Sun Valley slopes-they're equally appealing to the world s experts intermediates and beginners. There's one way to know and that's to go, so why not make this the year? Ownecl ancl operatecl by Union Pacific Rai lroacl ." more and more unknown even to the culti- vated Jew; and consequently amid the crowding and material interests of the new world he is submerged. . . unrecognized by the people among whom he lives. Not only unrecognized by the ignorant and the busy and their teachers the rabbis, who in N ew York are frequently nearly as ignorant as the people, he is also (as his learning is limited largely to the literature of his race), looked down upon by the in- fluential and intellectual element of the Ghetto-an element socialistic, in literary sympathy Russian rather than Hebraic, in- , tolerant of everything not violently mod- ern. . . . The masktl, therefore, the Hebrew scholar, is called "old fogey" or "dilet- tante" by the up-to-date socialists Of such men there are several in the humble corners of the N e\v York Ghetto. One peddles for a living, another has a small printing office in a basement on Canal Street, a third occasionally tutors in some one of many languages and sells a patent medicine. . . . ø ....<- ..... -J "The Spirit of the Ghetto" appeared in 1902; had it come out a few years later, Persky might have been in it. Hapgood's portrait of the peddler is much like him: He feels himself the apostle of a lost cause-the regeneration in N ew York of the old Hebrew language and literature. . . . Three years ago [the peddler 1 came to this country with a great idea. . . . He had a little money and he decided he would establish a journal in the interests of the Hebrew language. . . he would bring into ...., vivid being again the national spirit of his people, make them love with the old fervor their ancient traditions and lan- guage. It was the race's spirit. . . not the special creed of Judaism, for which he and the other scholars care little, that filled him with the enthusiasm of an apostle. In his monthly magazIne. the Western Light, he put . . . his best thoughts. . . . But. . . few bought it and it lasted only a year. . . . "It is terrible," [he protested]. "Not one Hebrew magazine can exist in this coun- try. They all fail and yet there are many beautiful Hebrew writers today.". . . The only ultimate hope is in the New J erusa- lem. . . . Although not a Zionist, [he 1 thinks well of the movement. ...,.. : "\ : .. .. , 't ' ..<' '1' III III It II (J 1)1' S II () I) IIr]:) - ', ,. _ T..' .. """ , / . . c t 1- , ,.. M r __ --=====1 I ,.. """"^^ >> }. *. \ , AT HOME AFTER SEVEN You'll be wearing au r tn mly sha ped pure silk shantung dinner pants. lipstick red. Embassy blue pa rchm ent or black. Sizes 10.16 19..95 '( ......:.' << '.: . 545 MADISON AVE .UE AT 55TH STREtT,.NEW YORK 22;, . -. .NEW YORK At a mere thirty-seven, this peddler, S. B. Schwartzberg, whose name is not unknown in the annals of modern He- b " b "" d " d . d " rew, was ltter an lscourage, but Persky seems never to have been either during all the years when He- brew was wandering in the linguistic wilderness. "We were an isolated group of Hebrew-lovers in a hostile world," says one of his old comrades in arms, Harry Wolfson, who is professor emeri- tus of Hebrew literature and philosophy at Harvard. "Persky was never the chairman; he was neither one who came to speak nor one who came to listen. Rather, he was the moving spirit of our meetings. There was an unworldlv quality about him. I noticed that, unlike most obsessives, he didn't argue; he was